Watson Brass with Philip Smith: Fantasia!

Watson said the radio rules were set to be reviewed to see if they were “fit for purpose”. Smith claimed there was no legal reason to withhold the items from him. “It has become very burdensome for prisoners and their families Phillip John Smith to find a compliant stereo, and expensive,” he said. In addition to prison-provided clothing, any personal items that inmates desire must be approved by the particular prison warden through an application process.

The murder inquiry, named Operation Green, uncovered a large quantity of strong evidence incriminating Smith, but at first he denied responsibility. He maintained his innocence as his trial began in July 2001, but later in the proceedings changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The motive for his crimes was unclear, but police who arrested him believed that a "lack of permanent sexual relations" was a contributing factor. Smith's first victim was Jodie Hyde, a recovering butane gas addict whom he met at the Rainbow before killing her hours later. He is thought to have strangled her before setting her body on fire near a recreation ground. Three days later, he met mother-of-three Rosemary Corcoran at the same public house and drove her to a rural location, where he bludgeoned her to death and drove over the body.

Patricia Lynott, a divorced mother of two from Ireland who had moved to Birmingham, had been found dead in her flat in October 2000. Police had not treated the death as suspicious, but after they discovered her connection to Smith, her body was exhumed for a second post mortem. This proved to be inconclusive, and in January 2003 a coroner's jury in Birmingham recorded an open verdict after hearing that the cause of her death could not be determined. He spent the first 21 years in Stockton where he graduated from Stockton high School and Stockton Junior College as a certified draftsman. His early love was sports with baseball and golf at the top of the list.

Alan Hall was convicted of murder in 1986 and spent 19 years in prison for the crime. Mowatt killed himself at Woodhill Forest north of Auckland days after the double murder. From the NZ Herald newsroom comes A Moment in Crime - a podcast delving into some of New Zealand’s biggest cases. Anna Leask has been a crime and justice reporter at the Herald for more than a decade.

He starts recording while packing up the apartment of his late mother Gloria Vanderbilt. In this episode of Herald true-crime podcast A Moment In Crime we look into the beginnings of Gloriavale and the ongoing list of men brought to justice for sex crimes against children within the confines of the religious community. Mr. Smith is committed to providing service to his community through his activism in legal organizations, such as the Lafayette Volunteer Lawyers program, where he provides free legal service to victims of domestic abuse. He also serves as a volunteer coach for the LSU Law Admiralty Moot Court External Team. Infamous prison escapee and murderer Phillip John Smith has taken legal action against the Department of Corrections for refusing to allow him to wear a necklace in prison. At this time all three murders were being treated by police as entirely separate as there was nothing about them that suggested they had been carried out by the same person.